Strategy Driven

AUGUST 4, 2013

Emerging Trends in Project Management. Implementing project management soft skills into your projects will become increasingly important over the next several years; opening your mind to these emerging trends will open your door to new opportunities. Click here for more information on Emerging Trends in Project Management.

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Curious Cat

JANUARY 6, 2015

The posts were published in 2010 (4 posts), 2013 (2), 2014 (2), 2005 (1) and 2012 (1). No True Lean Thinking or Agile Software Development (2010). Stated Versus Revealed Preference (2013). 94% Belongs to the System (2013). Deming and Software Development (2014). The Toyota Way – Two Pillars (2010).

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Persuasive Powerhouse

MAY 29, 2013

Take a look at the new book by this author, Quiet Influence: The Introvert’s Guide to Making a Difference (Berrett-Koehler, April 2013); I find myself pumping my fist and saying “yes!” I know many quiet influencers who manage their “reserves” at professional conferences by building in scheduled breaks.

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Coaching Tip

JANUARY 19, 2013

Now companies from software and health-care providers to manufacturers are radically remaking that model, shifting from expensive field staffs to more cost-efficient employees who use phones and computers to reach customers. Source: Bloomberg BusinessWeek, January 14, 2013 and "Ask the Coach". 2013 Business Resolutions.

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Mills Scofield

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

In June 2013, Vivek Wadhwa and Farai Chideya invited women to crowd-create a book on women innovators by sharing their own stories. This book is full with lessons for women, men, girls, boys, teachers, leaders, managers, even politicians on how to overcome stereotypes, stigmas, and artificial distinctions. Get Innovating Women.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 21, 2013

So what does any of this have to do with Project Management? Projects (and Project Managers) also have many different ways to reach the end goal. The point of all of this is that project managers are really artists and not scientists. From painting by numbers to the Sistine Chapel there is a massive gap. About the Author.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 18, 2013

by Ultimate Software. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Complimentary Resource – Improving Organizational Performance Management Through Pervasive Business Intelligence. Complimentary Resource – 10 Metrics for 2013 Marketing Success. Consider leaving a comment! All rights reserved.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 14, 2013

by Ultimate Software. Discover how the following 10 new hire best practices can ease new employees’ entry into your organization and help turn new hires into passionate, productive team players in this HR Management white paper. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. 10 Ways to Wow Your New Hire.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 13, 2013

Build your reputation and your business by avoiding these seven deadly sins of relationship management: Pride. You just finished reading The 7 Deadly Sins of Relationship Management ! Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. The post The 7 Deadly Sins of Relationship Management appeared first on StrategyDriven.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 27, 2013

by Rally Software. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Complimentary Resources business management complimentary resource complimentary whitepaper Project Management project planning Rally Software strategydriven teamwork' Iteration Planning Guide. Consider leaving a comment!

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 11, 2013

StrategyDriven Enterprises LLC and Xen Wireless form StrategyDriven Analytics to provide utility industry executives and managers with asset management program benchmarking data supporting operational and investment decisions and fleet and individual plant performance assessments. Online and Outage Work Management.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 20, 2013

Despite the realization that computer software greatly enhances the efficiency with which businesses operates, the use of recruitment software is not widespread. The simple fact is that not many business leaders are aware that recruitment software can transform your HR practices for the better and make hiring a simpler process.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 30, 2013

With 2013 winding down, it’s time to start thinking of ways to change, or improve, for the New Year. Michael Unetich is President of TIP Solutions, a Chicago-based software company building a patented set of software and firmware technologies around call handling and management. About the Author. All rights reserved.

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Deming Institute

DECEMBER 27, 2016

The 20 most popular post on our blog this year (by page views reported by our analytic tool): Myth: If You Can’t Measure It, You Can’t Manage It (2015). Deming and Lean: The Disparities and Similarities (2013). Deming’s 14 Points for Management (2013). We Need to Understand Variation to Manage Effectively (2013).

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Deming Institute

DECEMBER 28, 2015

The most popular post on our blog this year: Myth: If You Can’t Measure It, You Can’t Manage It (2015). What’s Deming Got to Do With Agile Software Development and Kanban (2013). Deming and Lean: The Disparities and Similarities (2013). Deming’s 14 Points for Management (2013). Deming Chain Reaction (2012).

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 1, 2013

by Ultimate Software. This 4-page guide outlines 7 ways that automated compensation management software improves your ROI: Streamlined data and workflow processes. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Relate Articles: Complimentary Resource – Compensation Management in the Recovering Economy.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 30, 2015

Like the words Think Different, People-Products-Profits is part management philosophy, part rallying cry, and in an aspirational context, part religion. and his first book, This Is Rage: A Novel of Silicon Valley and Other Madness , was published in 2013 by The Story Plant. Those are likely to be extremely pleasant surprises. * * *.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 26, 2013

Read how business leaders are using visualization software to run like never before. In this paper, leading analysts discuss the shrinking ‘decision window’ and how using visual discovery solutions can help business managers make decisions faster and with more confidence than ever before. Consider leaving a comment!

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Research by Gallup, as reported in The State of the American Workplace in 2013, discovered that roughly 70% of workers were disengaged. With input from their managers, peers, and teams, leaders know what they need to focus on when it comes to their development. Our client is a large business software company. Real Results.

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Skip Prichard

JULY 22, 2019

Let us give you our definition of what it means to be a founder: Playing a central role in starting and managing an initiative that will have impact (preferably visible and large) on an organization or the broader world. For example, Bezos has developed deep expertise in software engineering, robotics, information technology, devices (e.g.,

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

This means that many organizations and their leaders are running as fast as they can to quickly build their software capabilities. CEO Jeff Immelt declared in 2011 that GE needed to become a software and analytics company or risk seeing its hardware products become commodities as information-based competitors took over.

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 3, 2020

And, as anyone who closely follows simulation and prototyping tools knows, their use has become pervasive in manufacturing businesses, even though companies still grapple with the integration and management issues I wrote about in 2003. I had no idea how their use would fuel the rise of today’s online businesses. It was immediately launched.

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Coaching Tip

JANUARY 22, 2013

Gore & Associates, the materials firm famous for innovative products such as Gore-Tex and for its radically nonhierarchical management structure. Software engineers and designers are basing their thinking on what has come to be called Dunbar’s Number. . Sources: Bloomberg BusinessWeek, January 14, 2013.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 27, 2013

software, is CEO of mobile relationship management purveyor vipOrbit – the first relationship-centric contact manager solution enabling mobile business professionals to manage their contacts, calendar and client/customer interactions across Mac, iPhone and iPad platforms. About the Author. All rights reserved.

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HR Digest

AUGUST 4, 2020

For any business, a handy and adequate Payroll software application is a must-have. Considering the hassles that are involved while optimizing strategies for your Human Resource Management, it becomes a necessary tool. Payroll software helps to do just that, along with organizing all the tasks of employee payment and tax filing.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 22, 2013

If businesses exist, as the father of Business Management Peter Drucker proposed, “to create and keep a customer,” then success is defined by the relationships you establish with your customers. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. About the Author. CRM pioneer Mike Muhney, the co-creator of ACT! All rights reserved.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

I define churn as management’s inability to keep customers loyal. Why doesn’t management have the intestinal fortitude to present that as a dollar amount? Customer relationship management is the most purchased, least-used, and least-adopted software in the history of computers. HOW MUCH IS THAT IN DOLLARS?

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2013

The most recent data comes from a 2013 study by the Ponemon Institute and Symantec of 277 companies that experienced losses or thefts of protected personal data. IT management' As part of HBR''s "Data Under Siege" Insight Center , we present a few charts that show just how quickly malicious attacks, and their costs, are mounting.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2014

It has also helped shape the practice of management. Staying true to its roots as an engineering-centric company, Google has stood out both for its early skepticism of the value of managers as well as for its novel, often quantitative approaches to management decisions. How Google manages.

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Deming Institute

JANUARY 5, 2017

Thankfully, I also had some very good managers who still fell victim to conventional wisdom management ideas, such as a store manager creating special sales incentives and contests that seemed silly and unnecessary. I had experience a bullying boss who didn’t listen to their employees.

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Deming Institute

JANUARY 16, 2017

Sadly, it didn’t take very long to realize that the plant had a very traditional management style, very traditionally combative labor/management relations, and a typical blame-and-shame, command-and-control environment that made people miserable and didn’t deliver quality to the customer or any of the right business results.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 5, 2014

As data-driven marketers are taking full advantage of collecting, organizing, and analyzing demand management, many are adopting the classic marketing waterfall model from leading experts such as Sirius Decisions. The waterfall methodology was a classic approach used for software development. Here are a few of my thoughts!

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2013

I recently conducted an extensive research project involving more than one-hundred vice presidents of sales at top technology companies (software, cloud, computer hardware, and telecommunications) to better understand the art and science of managing a sales organization today. million and software was $3.2 Inside Sales Roles.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2018

We investigated this topic when we studied how Nokia executives dealt with the company’s severe strategic challenges between 2007 and 2013. As part of this research, we conducted 120 interviews, including nine with board members and 19 with top managers. Practice #1: Increase trust by defining new conversational norms.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2017

For example, our survey, which asked managers of 13 functions, from sales and marketing to procurement and finance, to indicate whether their departments were using AI in 63 core areas, found AI was used most frequently in detecting and fending off computer security intrusions in the IT department. Could Liberate 50% of Managers' Time.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2013

So how do people — and even dogs — routinely manage it? Managers under pressure to make many decisions can''t subject every one of them to thorough and dispassionate analysis. This is the kind of thinking that business managers can also profit from. But manage it, and you become the industry leader.

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Deming Institute

JANUARY 30, 2017

About ten years ago, somebody sent me a PDF file of Dr. Deming’s “Some Notes on Management in a Hospital.” A system doesn’t design itself and a system doesn’t manage itself. This also includes managers and leaders who are so consumed with fire fighting and bureaucracy that they are not able to spend time helping improve the system.

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